Whitehorse Daily Star

November 28, 2013

• Beautification Up High The City of Whitehorse Christmas tree outside the White Pass depot is getting decked out for the season.
• College is celebrating a half-century's education Yukon College is planning a big celebration event Friday evening to close out its 50th anniversary year.
• Swing Your Partner! The Barndance Band performs at last Friday evening's second annual Commissioner's Youth Showcase Concert.
• Community Development Fund helps communicate and renovate The Community Development Fund (CDF) is providing more than $137,000 to 10 community organizations for recreation, education and well-being initiatives.
• Fantastic Fare The cafeteria was packed with students Wednesday during Porter Creek Secondary School's Culture Days activities.
• More staff added to city's referred care clinic The Yukon government announced an expansion to Whitehorse's referred care clinic today.
• NDP questions coroner presiding over 2014 inquest The NDP has raised concerns that a conflict of interest may arise if the Yukon's chief coroner presides over the inquest into the deaths of Teresa Scheunert and Mary Johnny.
• Men will renounce violence, group has discovered A campaign to end violence against women and girls got off to a running start Wednesday evening, as White Ribbon Yukon held its inaugural annual general meeting
• Society considers communities for 2015 festival Bluegrass music fans will have to wait until at least 2015 for the next edition of the Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival.

November 27, 2013

• Yukon Party caucus helps typhoon relief cause Six members of the Yukon Party caucus attended last Saturday night's Operation Rise Up Again Fundraiser, held to support victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
• Alarm campaign out to save lives in the Klondike For the last month, firefighters from the Dawson City Fire Department and the Klondike Valley Fire Department have been visiting homes across the Klondike (and across the Yukon before the ferry was pulled) as part of the Home Safe campaign.
• It's That Time Of Year Again The City of Whitehorse Christmas tree
• Government pulls application for historic bridge's demolition The Yukon government has withdrawn its application to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) to demolish the Ross River Suspension Bridge.
• First member-owned grocery store to open tomorrow After four years' work by a small group of dedicated Yukoners, the territory's first member-owned online grocery store is ready to open.
• Musical Skills Showcased Victor-Emile Thibeault performs
• Conservation society turns thumbs down on LNG plan The Yukon Energy Corp.'s (YEC's) proposal to replace two aging diesel generators with new liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered versions is bad for climate change and bad for the Yukon.
• Court hears of efforts to help injured worker Paramedics and a Crown corporation employee took the stand Tuesday morning in the trial over the death of Denis Chabot.
• History book idea was spawned on a Hawaiian lanai What started as a comment between husband and wife Art and Ione Christensen on a lanai in Hawaii has turned into a 333-page book detailing Whitehorse's history.
• Symposium discusses housing shortage remedies The Yukon government took one more step toward its housing action plan Tuesday as community members gathered at the Yukon Inn to discuss barriers, gaps, and possible solutions to the territory's housing woes.
• Don't take credit for inquest, Graham tells NDP The Yukon's chief coroner has called an inquest into the deaths of Teresa Ann Scheunert and Mary Johnny.

November 26, 2013

• Liquor corporation's social responsibility raised in the house The NDP has raised concerns in the house about the loss of a full-time position dedicated to social responsibility at the Yukon Liquor Corp.
• Sport pilot program officially launched at F.H. Collins The new sport program was officially launched Monday morning at F.H. Collins Secondary School.
• Quelling The Problem Whitehorse firefighters
• Walk, gathering denounce violence against women Dozens of Whitehorse women put foot to pavement early Monday evening to take a stand against sexism, abuse and violence.
• City's postponement of land sales welcomed Council's decision Monday night to put off the sales of three city lots was welcome news to former residents of the escarpment and those hoping to see a park in the area.
• Contractor maintains he was right to shoot two wolves in residential area A man charged with multiple offences for shooting two wolves near residences in the Whitehorse Copper subdivision admits to the act but says he was in the right.
• MLA questions hospital expansion cost estimate The Yukon Liberals have raised more concerns in the legislature about government management of capital projects.